GREG Combet and his gobal warming friends should have a good look at the photograph of Rajendra Pachauri ("Nothing off-limits in climate debate", 22/2).

Pachauri doesn't look like someone scared witless by global warming alarmism. Instead, he has the relaxed look of someone whose finances are in good order and who is looking forward to a nice lunch.

It hasn't warmed in 17 years, there has been a good snowfall in the northern hemisphere, the ice is back where it should be in the Arctic and the latest forecast is that warming is unlikely within the next four years.

Over recent years, green-sharia scientists, pundits and mainstream journalists have claimed that every new severe weather event is a sign of climate change because atmospheric CO2 levels are above 350 ppm - they say 2012 weather disasters are examples of this, but they conveniently forget about 1957...a terrible year for sub-350 climate change eruptions